Folkling Tablescapes

I am excited to share with you, what we are hoping will be a regular new series here— Folkling Tablescapes.
What is a tablescape? You might be wondering.

By definition, it’s the arrangement of items on a table that produces and attractive and decorative effect, often with matching plates, bowls, etc.

Or, more specifically in our case, foraged flowers, cloth napkins, vintage vessels, candles and probably an excess of antique textiles…

You could say this interest (read: obsession) started sometime around my wedding. Owen and I had a dream of having one long outdoor table at our wedding, to gather around with our closest people and have a well cooked meal together.

Dreaming up the details for that setting (from the 1920s taper candles I found, to the cosmo printed feed sack napkins I made, to the overshot coverlet table runner I pieced together, to the dishes I found from an old Italian restaurant that went out of business, to the carefully thrifted silverware and champagne glasses my Mom single handedly found, to the candle holders I designed with a dear friend…) quickly became one of my favorite parts of coordinating the details of our day. Something I never expected I would be into, since up until that point I had quite an aversion to what I had always deemed was the fake-feeling Pinterest wedding table setting shenanigans.

But of course, I ended up realizing—this wedding table was just an extension and larger version of the table settings I often create in my own home.

These details, have truly become routine for Owen and I.
Our table is a showcase for not only a healthy textile obsession, but a preference for starting and ending the day with candles, a love of foraging, and the fact that we exclusively use cloth napkins in our home for every meal (a habit I have had, along with using rags vs. paper towels, for almost a decade).

All of these details center around the intention to have a small corner of our home, that represents an opportunity to pause.

To set screens down and whether alone, together, or with people we love, to break bread and enjoy the small tactile details that can be found in an ordinary day.

And so we hope that this small series will bring some inspiration for you to implement some of the same in your own home.
All of the pieces seen here, (save for our wedding silverware I repurposed for this photoshoot!) will be available September 7th at 3pm EDT, during our next web shop update.

Including, a very special homeware piece that we designed and had made by local artisan Sarah Grace Cheek: The Folkling Napkin Ring.
For your own gatherings, should they be of the every day variety, like most of ours, or for a special occasion.